Summary: Roland Chesters is today’s guest on The Segilola Salami Show. Roland shares with us his journey being diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and being told that he had only 2 weeks to live to still being alive 12 years later and writing a tell-all memoir/self-help book. I assure you, you need to click play now to listen to all that Roland Chesters has to say.<br> <br> About Roland Chesters<br> <a href="http://www.segilolasalami.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Roland-Chesters-You-are-not-your-diagnosis-Poster.jpg"></a>Roland Chesters was born in the north of England to an English father and French mother and has lived most of his life in London. He graduated from the Royal Holloway College with a degree in Modern Languages and after a variety of jobs joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office as a language-testing specialist. Following a diagnosis of HIV and AIDS in 2006, he became a campaigner for disability rights. He is now a self-employed Disability Development Consultant and has his own company, Luminate.<br> Roland lives with his partner, Richard, in London and enjoys opera, classical music, theatre and fashion (his favourite item of clothing being a bright red corduroy suit). He fights boredom and normality with gusto and says he is at his best when he’s made a positive impact on someone else’s life.<br> ‘Ripples from the Edge of Life’ is Roland’s first (and only according to him) book. You can <a href="http://www.segilolasalami.co.uk/ripples-from-the-edge-of-life/">read an extract from the book here</a>.<br> <br> Win a FREE paperback copy of Ripples from the Edge of Life<br> <a class="e-widget no-button" href="https://gleam.io/Eymkw/ripples-from-the-edge-of-life" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ripples from the Edge of Life</a><br><br> <br> <br> About The Segilola Salami Show<br> The Segilola Salami show is hosted by <a href="http://www.segilolasalami.co.uk/about-segilola-salami/">Segilola Salami who is also an author, freelance writer and blogger</a>. <a href="http://www.segilolasalami.co.uk/useless-warrior-princess-launch/">Her latest book is called Useless Warrior Princess</a>.<br> The show is set in a virtual cafe and is about books and publishing. The aim of the show is to be both educative and informative but in an entertaining way. Guests from all works of life come on the show to talk about the books they have read or written and how books motivated or inspired them. Listeners of the show get to discover new authors and new books as well as learn something new.<br> The show is published weekly on Tuesdays at 9 am GMT London. <a href="https://www.segilolasalami.co.uk/subscribe-to-podcast/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Please click here to subscribe</a> to be notified when a new episode is released.<br> If you would like to appear as a guest on the next episode of the podcast, please<a href="http://www.segilolasalami.co.uk/podcast-segilola-salami/appear-as-a-guest/"> click here to book your slot</a>.<br> If you are able to, I would really it if you can <a href="http://www.segilolasalami.co.uk/support-the-segilola-salami-show/">support the show</a>.<br> If you are an author, blogger or book lover, please subscribe to my authors and bloggers <a href="https://eepurl.com/bPi2_f" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">mailing list</a> to find out about new self-published books that need reviews. I send out monthly newsletters with details of authors and their books that need honest feedback.<br> The intro music used in this episode was <a href="http://www.chrislament.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">provided by Chris Lament</a>.<br> Please download a FREE copy of Yetunde: An Ode To My Mother by Segilola Salami on Amazon<br><br> <br> <br> ***<br> I would love to know your thoughts on today’s episode “Brian James: How to connect with a publisher”. Please leave a comment below.
